Composers as kids: a photo album of great composers as children

Composers as kids: a photo album of great composers as children

Whether they were little darlings or complete tearaways, all these children grew up to be great composers. Here, we present an album of pictures of the great composers as children

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Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg and his brother John, as young boys. c.1860. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Published: October 5, 2020 at 7:44 am
Philip A Heseltine (1894 - 1930) pseudonym for Peter Warlock, English musicologist and composer. Original Publication: People Disc - HN0023 (Photo by George C Beresford/Getty Images)
1899: Headshot of Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Bela Bartok (1881 - 1945) as a young man of 18, wearing suit and tie. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1865: Gustav Mahler as a child. Photograph. 1865. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)
Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg and his brother John, as young boys. c.1860. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
UNSPECIFIED - JULY 07: Claude Debussy (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1862-Paris, 1918), French composer and pianist, seen here as a child on a tricycle, April 15, 1867. Saint-Germain-En-Laye, Musée Claude Debussy (Debussy Museum) (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
UNSPECIFIED - JUNE 14: Portrait of a young Carl Orff (Munich, 1895-1982), German composer. Diessen Am Ammersee, Carl Orff Museum (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
UNSPECIFIED - MAY 19: Portrait of Jan Sibelius as a child (Hameenlinna, 1865-Jarvenpaa, 1957), Finnish composer and violinist. Turku, Sibelius Museo/Sibelius Museet (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
UNSPECIFIED - JUNE 07: Portrait of a young Alban Maria Johannes Berg (Vienna, 1885-Vienna, 1935), Austrian composer. Vienna, Alban Berg Stiftung (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer, as a young man, late 1850s. Mussorgsky (1839-1881) as a cadet in the Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guards. He was one of the group of Russian Romantic era composers known as 'the Five'. From a private collec (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
(Original Caption) Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer and his sister. Undated photograph.
UNSPECIFIED - DECEMBER 13: The English composer Edward Elgar (1857-1934) with his brother Frank and sisters. 19th century. Worcester, Elgar Birthplace Museum (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
(Eingeschränkte Rechte für bestimmte redaktionelle Kunden in Deutschland. Limited rights for specific editorial clients in Germany.) Tchaikovsky, Pyotr - Composer, Russia - *07.05.1840-06.11.1893 - 1863 (Photo by Elizaveta Becker/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
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